The first step to understanding a ‘situation’ is to acknowledge that there is a situation. And for me? Well it’s my obsession for making hand soap lately.
To go back into time, I had talked about making soap about 20 years ago and with both the boys being little and all the stuff that goes on not only when your kids are little, but the risk of having lye in the house – I decided not to talk about it anymore back then and gave all my books to Good Will.
Now that we’re empty nesters and I started to read up on this again, well the rest is history in the making.
So what did I make this last week? Well it’s a mango butter with shea butter, coconut & olive oil base and finished off with an Almond Biscotti fragrance. And how does our house smell? AWESOME!! There’s a Rosemary coconut soap in the basement drying, the Almond Biscotti is in the kitchen, Lemon Sunshine soap upstairs, and a couple of other stragglers from some other soaps that I made. I’m going to work on a new one this weekend that you do a completely different process to mix the oils. You know… just to see how it works 🙂
But the biggest trouble that I have is to use up what I’ve got. When I’m in the shower you’d swear that I’ve dumped a bottle of soap in there with all the bubbles that I’ve got going. I do have a couple of my friends that are sampler’s and that’s been working out pretty good for me to give them soap so they can let me know what they do or don’t like about them. Oh well, making soap isn’t the worst habit now is it?
As for now – here are some pictures of the Almond Mango soap that I made this week. I’ll add the recipe later this weekend when I get a few minutes.This is how the soap looks after it’s taken out of the mold 
And this is why my kitchen smells so good